Flashcards: Arts

A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso [virˈtwoːzo] or [virtuˈoːso], "virtuous", Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.

Pre-Romanesque art and architecture is the period in European art from either the emergence of the Merovingian kingdom in about 500 CE or from the Carolingian Renaissance in the late 8th century, to the beginning of the 11th century Romanesque period.

Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.

The Amish have been portrayed in many areas of popular culture.

An antique (Latin: antiquus; "old", "ancient") is an old collectable item.

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts or demonstrating an art.

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.

A sign is an object, quality, event, or entity whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else.

Air guitar is a form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play an imaginary rock or heavy metal-style electric guitar, including riffs, solos, etc.

A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox, with respect to art, culture, and society.

Patronage is the support, encouragement, privilege, or financial aid that an organization or individual bestows to another.

A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists.

Mimesis (/maɪˈmiːsəs/; Ancient Greek: μίμησις (mīmēsis), from μιμεῖσθαι (mīmeisthai), "to imitate," from μῖμος (mimos), "imitator, actor") is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio, receptivity, nonsensuous similarity, the act of resembling, the act of expression, and the presentation of the self.

An audition is a sample performance by an actor, singer, musician, dancer or other performer.

In electroacoustic music, a loop is a repeating section of sound material.

A canon in the sphere of visual arts and aesthetics, or an aesthetic canon, is a rule for proportions, so as to produce a harmoniously formed figure.

In aesthetics, the human figure or human form in art, sculpture and other art forms involves a study and appreciation of the beauty of the human body in its depiction or presentation.

An artist's impression or artist's interpretation is the representation of an object or a scene created by an artist, when no other accurate representation is available.